so says the one my mother calls "the poor bearded guy"(dhadi vachuttu paakka paavama irukkararu). I wasn't aware that she regularly reads his syndicated column in The Hindu and she wasn't aware that he got the Economics Nobel this year. I was trying to discredit supply siders / Ayn Rand acolytes to her and was having a hard time until i mentioned Krugman's name. She is the ultimate utilitarian/moral relativist and hence very difficult to convince about the evil banality of anything. But having "the poor bearded guy" in your corner goes a long way in convincing people about the havoc wreaked by supply siders on the world.